PREDICTED
LINE UP 1-Jos Buttler 2-Shane Watson 3-Callum Ferguson 4-Joe Root 5-Jason Sangha 6-Daniel Sams 7-Arjun Nair 8-Chris Green 9-Gurinder Sandhu 10-Sam Rainbird 11-Fawad Ahmed TOP PREMIUM
PLAYER SHANE WATSON
(BAT/BWL $166,700) Two words describe Watson at the moment – IN
FORM. Watson heads into BBL08 off the back of the recent T10 UAE tournament,
where he scored 223 runs in 6 games, averaging 65 SuperCoach points per game. That
was preceded by an outstanding IPL campaign for Watto, where he scored 555 runs
at an average of 40, including scores of 117, 106 and 78. He is still also very
handy with the ball, taking 6 wickets in the IPL. It’s easy to see why he was
the number 1 ranked T20I batsman and all-rounder in the world when he retired
for Australia two years ago, and since then, he hasn’t lost any of his ability.
Whether you start with Watson or look to trade him in, he will be a very
popular choice in SuperCoach for his round 4 double game week.

PREDICTED
LINE UP 1-Daniel Hughes 2-Jack Edwards 3- Joe Denly 4-Moises Henriques 5-Jordan Silk 6-Josh Philippe (wk) 7-Justin Avendano 8-Tom Curran 9-Sean Abbott 10-Steve O’Keefe 11-Ben Dwarshuis TOP PREMIUM
PLAYERJOE DENLY
(BAT $186,800) The classy English opener will once again be
important for the Sixers, until he potentially leaves for international duties
midway through the BBL. He is listed as a batsman only in SuperCoach, but is a
very capable bowler. This is evidenced by his 20 wickets in the UK Vitality
Blast, and his 4/19 in his last T20i for England. The Sixers do have numerous
spinners (O’Keefe, Pope, Fallins, Lyon), but expect Denly to still bowl handy
overs. Bowling aside, he is a tremendous batsman, scoring 323 runs in the
Pakistan Super League and then 409 runs in the Vitality Blast this season. A reliable
top order play with a career T20 average of nearly 30, Denly is a consistent
performer, and therefore should be a top SuperCoach asset, especially
considering the Sixers’ fixture …

PREDICTED
LINE UP 1-Michael Klinger 2-David Willey 3-Mitch Marsh 4-Hilton Cartwright 5-Asthon Turner 6-Ashton Agar 7-Josh Inglis 8-Nathan Coulter-Nile 9-Andrew Tye 10-Jhye Richardson 11-Jason Behrendorff TOP PREMIUM
PLAYERDAVID WILLEY
(BAT/BWL $194,000) I’ve chosen David Willey over Andrew Tye here
due to his role up the order with the bat. If Willey opens the batting as
expected, in addition to leading the Scorchers attack with his swing bowling, then
he should be a lock in for SuperCoaches in round 1. In the recent UK Vitality Blast,
Willey was dominant, scoring 386 runs along with taking 9 wickets. An
all-rounder of his ability being given the opportunity to open the batting and
bowling is an elite SuperCoach option, and a great captaincy option for his
round 1 double game week.

TOP MID
PRICED PLAYERNATHAN
COULTER-NILE (BAT/BWL $125,000) Still getting back into swing of things after
a series of frustrating injuries over the past couple years, NCL will look to
hit peak form this BBL. A dangerous…

From now to the turn of the year, the Premier League
sees an immense amount of fixtures crammed into a schedule that isn’t player
friendly or FPL thoughtful as the quantity of playing minutes on players can
force unforeseen rotations in squads and peculiar results that aren’t generally
seen in other periods of the course of the season. Due to the mayhem that the
EPL endures, there is a general shuffling of FPL rankings overall and in
mini-leagues. To assist in negating the “I need to take a hit” mentality that
many FPL managers get in their heads over the festive season, WFC has complied
a brief list of players that are essential to FPL squads, along with players
that could boast as hidden gems should the scheduling nightmare benefit their
possible points returns, giving a generous leg-up to mangers. So, we start with the must have players: Must
Haves:Ederson Starting every game in the league there is no reason
to suggest that the Brazilian will be rotated out. With his exceptional passi…

PREDICTED
LINE UP 1-Ben Dunk 2-Travis Dean 3-Glenn Maxwell 4-Marcus Stoinis 5-Dwayne Bravo 6-Jonathan Merlo 7-Evan Gulbis 8-Adam Zampa 9-Scott Boland 10-Jackson Bird 11-Sandeep Lamichhane TOP PREMIUM
PLAYERDWAYNE BRAVO
(BAT/BWL $204,300)You could flip a coin between Bravo and Stoinis
for this spot, but I’ve chosen Bravo due to his experience and remarkable
consistency. The only downside to starting with Bravo is that the Stars don’t
have a double game week until round 10. With that aside, Bravo is still one of
the premier all-rounders in the world and will undoubtedly perform well again
this BBL. In the recent Caribbean Premier League, he batted down the order at
number 6 and 7 and still managed 209 runs at an amazing strike rate of 204.98,
which shows how destructive he can be with that bat. He also picked up 13
wickets during that tournament, so he is in good form coming into the BBL and
ready to again score plenty of SuperCoach points.